Digital systems in design, painting and sculpture.

[Hand-Rudy & MacMillan] Jodi Stuart
[Polly Addison & MacMillan] Chad Erpelding
[McMahon] Berger & Föhr, Joseph Shaeffer

Curatorial statement: 
The artists in this exhibition use data, systems and information to portrait a seemingly simple concept, only to expose its complexity. In some of the work the process is more important than the final product. 

In the McMahon Gallery a joint exhibition titled “WORK WORK” brings together a well-known Boulder duo, Berger & Föhr, (who own a design firm of the same name and started Ello, an online social media platform) and trans-disciplinary studio artist Joseph Shaeffer. The works included in this exhibition are the realization of a near two-decade-long dialogue between the artists representing their shared and differing perspectives on the relationships between their collective output, their day jobs; Joseph as a physics laboratory technician and Berger & Fohr as graphic designers, and their larger contemporary art practices. United by a shared affinity for concept, processes, systems, and constrained, graphic minimalism, the artists present the findings of a highly contextual, materials-driven series of day-to-day explorations into their unique work-to-art or “WORK WORK” relationship.

An exhibition titled “Market Watch” by Chad Erpelding, featured in the MacMillan Family Lobby, challenges viewers to consider their relationships with global institutions while reevaluating their understanding of place in a global community. Through extensive research of corporations, political systems, governmental organizations, stock markets etc., Erpelding looks to discover various representations of global networks and activities.